On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 11:51:42AM +0100, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote: > <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: [...] > > At least in bash, this doesn't seem necessary, as you are > > only seeing an external representation: internally, bash > > keeps the timestamp separate (as happens to the seq number, > > too). > > > > In the external file, the timestamps are kept as #-comments > > in separate lines (with the UNIX timestamps in them). > > bash seems to treat root and a normal user differently. On my box, history, .bash_history and HISTTIMEFORMAT behave as I described both for root and for a regular user. Just to be sure: # tomas@trotzki:~$ bash --version # GNU bash, version 5.1.4(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) # Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> # # This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. # There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Cheers -- t
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